2004 Veidec Nitro Festival Torsdag / Thursday
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16:20 We rounded the day off here at Mantorp Park with the fourth qualifying session of Junior Dragster and the top five has seen some changes with Martin Kretz and Daniel Nyling moving into third and fourth respectively. And how about this for an interesting statistic: the top thirty two qualifiers in Junior Dragster are separated by 0.091 seconds! The top five in Junior Dragster after session four are:
We are now working on today's full NDRS results which should be posted in the next hour or so; you will be able to access those from the Event Home Page (click on the Veidec Festival logo at the top of this page). We are also about to start work on today's pictures which should be posted in an hour to two hours from now. Stay tuned! 15:50 A great fourth qualifying session of the day for Competition Eliminator racer Bruno Bader as he took the Eurodragster.com/Speedflow Perfect Light Award with a 0.000 Reaction Time. Bruno is 700 SEK richer and his wife and Crew Chief Franzi tells us that this was his first ever perfect light. He picked a very good time to do it! There were no changes to the top five in today's final session:
15:40 The top five of Super Gas Bike stays as it was after session four of qualifying:
15:35 No changes at all to the top five of Stock/Superstock after the fourth session of qualifying.
The top five in Street Bike also stays as-was.
We have Super Gas Bike, Comp Eliminator and Junior Dragster to run, then we are done for the day here at Mantorp Park. 15:20 Some new names in the top five of System Edström Super Comp after the fourth session of qualifying, as Paul Nilsen and Peter Abrahamson come in at second and fourth respectively. We're in the 8.9s down to number sixteen of twenty six, with one breakout on the list and that's by a thousandth! The top five after session four are:
15:05 Håkan Mattson has moved into the top five in Twinlab Super Gas in the fourth session of qualifying, moving Jonny Jorgensen down one spot to fifth. Seventeen of thirty Super Gassers are now in the 9.9s with no breakouts! The top five are now:
14:55 Peter Blomberg having come into the top three in Super Street after the third session now has the same done to him in the fourth as ET Jorgensen takes third place by one thousandth of a second.
14:50 Henrik Oscarsson comes in with a bullet to take over the lead in Street Bike after session 3, a lot of improvements means some changes within the following four of the top five.
After session three of Super Gas Bike it's as you were in the top five although Frerik Jelgert has improved his ET slightly.
We're now going into cycle four of qualifying, stay tuned. 14:35 Some improvements in Competition Eliminator as Janne Ahonen stays in third but is now -0.607 on his dial-in, Leif Pettersson improves to -0.527 for fourth place and Marco Maschietto moves into the top five with a 7.299, -0.501, at a huge 319.84 (that's 198.74 mph for our English readers), judging by the crew's reaction that was a new PB for Marco.
14:25 After the third session it's twenty two of twenty three Stock/Superstock under their index, but no changes to the top five.
14:15 Congratulations to Markko Lahonitty who has not only taken over the lead in System Edström Super Comp in the third session of qualifying but has also won the Eurodragster.com/Curbishley Automotive Perfect ET Award with an 8.900. Markko is now 700 SEK better off and of course can't be knocked off the #1 spot. Mamma Staflund, we've got good news for you as Jonas has moved up to second with an 8.907.
13:55 A-Charlotte Peterson having had a go at the Perfect ET Award in the last session of Twinlab Super Gas decided to try for the Perfect Light Award in this third session with a 0.003 RT! Morten Tiainen and Jonny Jorgensen have come into the top five, and we now have sixteen of thirty in the 9.9s with no breakouts.
For our friends tuned in from Holland, David Vegter is currently #15 at 9.970/222.08 and Robert Joosten is #17 at 10.005/260.92. 13:30 No changes in the top two of Super Street after the third session although Peter Blomerg has come into the top three, relegating Jessica Gustavsson from the top five. Dave Cherrett ran 10.906 in this session, very consistent form for a new engine and no throttle stop!
13:25 Yvonne Bader took over #1 spot in the third session of Junior Dragster with a 0.009 reaction time. We now have twenty five of forty four within 0.1 seconds!
13:05 Numbers one and two have swapped places in Street Bike after session two with Thomas Nilsson taking over from Rehan Ahmad.
Fredrik Jelgert is still on top after session two of Super Gas Bike but we've had some changes as Kari Ollilainen and Mats Wuolo come into the top five.
We're now heading into the third cycle of qualifying, stay tuned. 12:55 Some big changes in Competition Eliminator after the second session as Antti Horto goes into #1 spot with a run -0.728 on index, current points leader Peter Eliasson is now second, Janne Ahonen moves into third and Bruno Bader is now fourth despite a slight improvement. Leif Pettersson moves into the top five. We've now got twelve of seventeen under index.
12:35 After the second session it's now twenty one of twenty two Stock/Superstock under their index and some changes in the top five as Björn Bondesson joins Daniel Persson on -0.830 with the biggest wheelie of the day so far.
12:20 Sami Saapola now leads System Edström Super Comp after the second session whilst Zane Llewellyn has moved up to second, Christina Hagglund's earlier top qualifying pass is now good for third. Johan Pripp got very close indeed with an 8.899 whilst Stefan Persson pulled a cracking 0.006 RT. Jan Birkenen brought the house down with a one hundred foot rolling burnout in his station wagon. Out of a field of twenty five we have twelve 8.9s and three breakouts. The top five are:
12:00 A-Charlotte Peterson has taken over the Twinlab Super Gas lead from Harry Forsten with a 9.901, Harry was alongside in this pairing and ran a 9.908, already showing consistency with two 9.90s in a row. The other three places in the top five have also changed. The only way to get to #1 in SG now is to run bang-on and take the Eurodragster.com/Curbishley Automotive Perfect ET Award unless someone in another class gets there first! We've now got fifteen of twenty nine Twinlab Super Gas racers in the 9.9s.
11:55 We're underway again with the rest of session two of Super Street, Elisabeth Bredal has taken over the lead with a 10.902 and we have had some other changes to the top five. We've now got seven of twenty one in the 10.9s and four breakouts. Jöran Sordal pulled the best Reaction Time of the day so far with a 0.014 in this session of Super Street.
11:30 Christer grabbed a word with Janne Carlsson who is as we said perfectly OK. "Everything came out of the bottom of the engine", said Janne, "oil got under one of the tyres and I could not help hitting the guardrail". The good news on Janne's Nova is that apart from some damage to the front of the body, everything else is OK. The track crew are finishing up on the clean-up so we should be on our way again very soon. 10:30 We're on a hold in session two of Super Street qualifying after NDRS Champion Janne Carlsson had a crash in his Nova. The engine dropped oil at about half track which quickly got under the tyres and pitched the car into the guardrail. The Nova then rebounded off the guardrail and spun to a stop. Janne is perfectly OK, no word yet on the Nova. The cleanup is estimated to take half an hour so stay tuned and as soon as we get going again we'll bring you all the latest news. 10:25 Wholesale changes in Junior Dragster qualifying after session 2, with Dennis Haukirauma's 0.026 now only good for fifth after a very close-fought session with a lot of improvements. Victor Bergdahl, last year's winner of the Euroddragster.com/Speedflow Perfect Light Award, takes the lead in this session. We now have forty four JDs qualified with the top twenty one within one hundredth of a second.
10:10 A delighted Franzi Bader cleared at least a metre in the air as Bruno Bader went 0.460 under index to take the lead in Competition Eliminator. Only eight cars turned out for this session although there are another three cycles, at least, today and another bunch of qualifying sessions tomorrow. After session 1 the top five are:
Rehan Ahmad leads Street Bike after the first session which was contested by six bikes:
Super Gas Bike is led by Fredrik Jelgert after session 1, thirteen bikes contested this session with the top three in the 9.5s.
We're now going into the second cycle of qualifying, stay tuned. 09:50 Your reporter doesn't get to see Stock/Superstock unless he goes to an NDRS event and it was as entertaining as ever with huge wheelstands from beautifully-prepared doorslammers. Of twenty one cars no less than twenty are under index with Daniel Persson leading the way after session 1, a whopping 0.830 under:
09:40 System Edström Super Comp is led by Kristina Hagglund with a fine 8.914/249.27 for a first run out. The UK's Zane Llewellyn got straight back into the swing of things, qualifying fourth on one of his first runs out this season. Out of a field of twenty four we have five 8.9s and five breakouts, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a full field of 8.9s by the end of the day as racers get a handle on the track which is having its first real exercise this year. The top five are:
A big Hej to Mamma Staflund who is tuned in, right now Jonas is #6 at 9.021/234.39 09:20 Harry Forsten leads Twinlab Super Gas with a 9.905/253.37 in his beautiful red roadster, running alongside Robert Joosten whose ex-Pro Stock Truck made for a very photogenic pairing. The top eight are in the 9.9s after this session and we've got only four breakouts in a field of thirty.
09:05 UK visitor Dave Cherrett repeated his feat of last season with a 10.903 to lead Super Street qualifying after session 1. This is Dave's first competitive event with his new engine after a few test runs at Santa Pod a couple of weeks ago. We had twenty qualifiers in the first session and the top four so far are in the 10.9s, seven breakouts, but it's early yet. The top five after session 1 are:
09:00 Junior Dragster qualifying session 1 was contested by forty cars and the top ten qualifiers are separated by only 0.103 seconds. The top five qualifiers after session 1 are:
08:10 Good morning and welcome from Mantorp Park on a beautiful summer morning. The sun is out, the sky is blue, there's not a cloud to spoil the view and we're all set for the first day of NDRS Sportsman-class qualifying. The Svensk Dragracing and Eurodragster.com staff hooked up yesterday afternoon and we're all set to bring you all the news from the Veidec Nitro Festival as it happens. Qualifying starts with Junior Dragster at 9:00. We will be tracking the top five qualifying spots in each class during the day today, and then complete qualifying standings will be posted at the end of the day. Stay tuned and we'll be back with the first news from qualifying soon after 9:00. |
